GX 460 Lift Kit - Ironman 4x4 Foam Cell Pro Review 

Enjoy the rig and thanks for the shout, Mate! Upper Control Arms will certainly help with the alignment and ensure you're back to proper suspension geometry.

It's 3am, and I actually hollered out loud after the marketing audience bit. 🤣🤣🤣 I own a GX Premium, and my vehicle selection was mainly based off of what I thought would be great for my daughter. Definitely thankful for your dad jokes, and general humor. Salute!

This is one of the most entertaining and informative videos that I've seen in awhile. Thank you.

This is my kind of humor. There were some gems delivered with the usual dead pan style. Good choice on the lift kit and the decision to do it yourself. This is what separates men and, er, men with less money than ambition! Looking forward to the part II.

I was just thinking about you, and your family, and you just so happened to pop up onto my feed. Look at that. I'm happy for your progress!

Oh man, I just found your RU-vid channel because I am considering getting a GX 460 and I love your style, great job!

Very skilled presentation blend of fine details and humor. 👏

Awesome video! Love my fcp stage 2 setup! I went from 265 to 285 and my rubbing situation actually went away because of alignment adjustments! Totally agreed with everything you said in the video and is the exact reason I got mine!

Great points! I pulled out my Radflo 2.5 adjustable coilovers on my GX470 a year ago to have Radflo rebuild them (drove there on a Disneyland trip). I definitely went way over 15k for rebuilds... I had Radflo rebuild them at 59,923 mi at a cost of $478.03 (with new shafts and shipping back) in September 2022. Nobody talks about how often you have to rebuild these... and the time it takes to take them out, put them back plus the downtime if it is a wife mobile (which was in my case). So my wife end up driving my old 4Runner for a couple of weeks. On the other hand, my 1999 4Runner also have 2.5" Radflo coilovers with over 105,000mi on them without rebuild. It was a much lighter vehicle (over 1000# lighter than the GX and 2000# lighter than the LX) and the 2.5" coilovers were way overbuilt for the 3rd gen 4Runner platform. I reinstalled the rebuild Radflo back on the GX and set the lift back to 0" because I wanted to get back more downtravel. Previously I had these set to 1.5". Either way, my 32" KO2 still clear the fenders but now I have more downtravel. I also own a LX570 which has hydraulic suspension and the reasons I chose it over the Land Cruiser 200 was because I didn't have to buy any aftermarket coilovers nor do I have to rebuild the coilovers every couple of years. I just change out the AHC fluid every 60,000 mi and the shocks/suspension get refreshed. Much easier than rebuilding the coilovers. I also don't rock crawl as much with the LX and leave that stuff for the old 4Runner. I do my own maintenance and actually prefer to work on the AHC than work on the KDSS (especially with the lean issue) since it is very easy to work on as long as you don't have rusted out hydraulic lines (that goes for both KDSS and AHC). Plus with AHC you get on demand flip of a switch +2" lift when you want it (+2.5" if you are really stuck) and automatic -1" lift on the highway for better fuel economy.

Looking forward to the next part. I’ve got the front FCPs with HD springs sitting in my shop waiting to be installed on my 17 GX. I’ve got a Expedition One front bumper coming which is why i went heavy and why I’m waiting to install. Im not going to delete my rear bags though. I’m going to try the sensor spacer cheat first.

we got the stage 2 kit with the 3” lift front and back and could not be happier ☺️

Good reviews

I’ve got the Ironman FCP kit, 2.5” front, 2” rear on my 2017 GX460. Thanks for the video. Love the lift. I paired it with Freedom offroad UCA. Had to do fair bit of trimming to fit my 34.5” tires. I’m getting 11-12 mpg on street, 14-16 highway (I admit I have a heavy foot habit lol).

great video! we have no lift... love ❤️ the factory engineering 👌

Good video.

Congrats on less scraping and more fuel consumption. Looking forward to part II. Wondering how you prevented dash lights and error codes with air spring delete. I did Bilsteins 6112s in front with 1.5” lift and tricked the rear air into another 1” lift with washers but haven’t dared to swap to coil springs yet for that reason.

Love your video! Looking forward to part 2. Btw, is you GX a base or a premium? If it is a premium, did you delete the rear air bag to install the lift? Cause I am thinking about buying a 2010-2013 GX premium but I am afraid the air suspension would not work with any lifts.

Sigh……good choice, I love and hate my king shocks for what you’ve mentioned. Especially in WA no one rebuilds them so I have to send them to CA smh. But I have kept my stock suspension so I can put them on when the kings are off, l like the iron man suspension that they are easier to rebuild than my king shocks.

Great video. I couldn't find much about the Ironman FCP. Can you share your experience using the kit, ride quality and performance, etc. I guess it's been a year since you installed it. Thank you

The spring dampens nothing, it supports the weight. The shock aka damper does the damping.

Love your videos bro. Lemme tell you about ma rig. I drive a Prado 2013 V6 which is exactly the same built as GX 460. Maybe GX is a V8. Recently i have installed a 2 inch suspension liftkit from Dobinsons. Now am planning to change my stock wheels to beadgrips. And stock tires 265/65/r17 to 265/70 all terrains. I mostly drive in soft sands so have to air down to 10 psi. Let's see how it would look and perform with Method beadgrips

Just on your point about spring technology at 7:23. There is a newer material for springs that some suspension spring manufacturers are now using called German X5K steel. X5K steel allows the coil to be lighter for the same spring rate as conventional SUP9 steel with the theoretical same durability but being lighter and has proven to be more responsive in the motocross/supercross field. I could be wrong but I don’t believe Ironman has switched to X5K steel yet as can probably be seen by the amount of coils and size of wire in their coils. Despite this, X5K springs probably have no real benefit in 4x4 vehicles (due to the many rubber mounts in chassis and suspension joints) other than being able to create a spring that is approx 30% lighter than SUP9. Just my 2cents

I enjoyed your video, however I’ve got to point out that springs are actually very complicated and there’s an awful lot of engineering going into them. This depends on the use cases of course - car suspension springs are of the lesser high-tech sort.

I’m about to pull the trigger on the lift kit with the ACU and the trackbar but I’m doubting about the rear springs, should I go with the ones you got or the 1.5” spring

I want to lift but this is my daily driver and the stock GX460 suspension is the best SUV on road suspension I've ever had. So... 4 (youtube) months into your install. What is the on road performance like?

Since there is a threaded body, is it possible to have no front lift?

love your content, I wish we were neighbors; ;) what was your thoughts on Bilstein 6112 /5160? did you consider it?

So can I just do 33’s with no lift and just trim plastic then?? 😂

you're funny dude.

did it miss it? where’s the review? how do they ride? what do you like and dislike about the ride?

Awesome video! We have launched the 6500K led headlight bulb, would you like to try it? We wanna send it for you to try. I have contacted you by email, hope to hear from you, thanks.

Rebuild 15k ? It's actually 50k

I can’t believe you spent thousands of dollars and multiple days to downgrade your vehicle with Chinese junk.